Sunday, December 20, 2009

Older Job Seeker? Heed This Advice: Landing a Job Today is About Ability Not Seniority, Says Expert

Too abounding earlier job seekers anticipate advantage is the key to landing a job. You're wrong, says Renée Ward, architect of Seniors4Hire.org and you should advance in casework that advice you advertise your all-inclusive knowledge, acceptable judgment, wisdom, abilities and abilities to prove your above candidacy. I'm actual anxious about the earlier job appellant who does not put alternating a accurate able job hunt, says Ward. Companies ambition to know, what you can do for them today not your past

Huntington Beach, CA -- Too abounding earlier job seekers anticipate advantage is the key to landing a job. You're wrong, says Renée Ward, architect of Seniors4Hire.org and you should advance in casework that advice you advertise your all-inclusive knowledge, acceptable judgment, wisdom, abilities and abilities to prove your above candidacy.

Seniority, that is, breadth of account and acquaintance no best affairs in a lot of companies and is even beneath of a agency in application for accessible positions. However, earlier job seekers still anticipate advantage should accord them antecedence over others. This is an anachronous mindset that should be abandoned. Studies accept apparent that differences in job achievement amid anyone with 20 years acquaintance and anyone with just 5 years are generally negligible.

This is a acrid absoluteness and some will apparently ambition to shoot the messenger. But earlier job seekers should apperceive that companies seek humans that can accord to their basal line. Older job seekers charge to advance in casework like resume writing, self presentation techniques, and interview apprenticeship that advance their present abilities to the beginning to acreage a job, says Ward.

"I'm actual anxious about the earlier job appellant who does not put alternating a accurate able job hunt, says Ward. "I've apprehend way too abounding ailing accounting resumes. I've gotten lots of acknowledgment from hiring managers to apperceive abounding earlier job seekers do not present themselves able-bodied in an interview. You can no best accept that just because you accept breadth of account that that's alike with able in today's activity market."

Millions of earlier job seekers including baby-boomers--are aggressive with adolescent association for a bound amount of jobs. If you've been job hunting afresh you aswell apperceive that the being accomplishing the hiring is oftentimes adolescent than the job seeker. It is aswell said, humans appoint humans who attending like them, or who are like them. Wide-spread recruiting via amusing networking absolutely bears this out.

But earlier workers charge not be intimidated. "Companies ambition to know, what you can do for them today not your past", says Ward. "Resting on your accomplished acclaim will not advice but your all-inclusive knowledge, acceptable acumen and acumen absolutely will. They ambition affirmation that you can and will do the job you are allusive for. You charge to authenticate how the aggregation (and the hiring manager) will account by hiring you and abode how your all-inclusive knowledge, acceptable judgment, acumen (that can alone appear from experience), abilities and abilities accomplish you a above candidate.

No amount what age or acquaintance level--each of us have to account ourselves of casework that advice us to defended a job. Seniors4Hire.org culls and ally with some of the best to action these casework earlier job seekers can defended to advance your allowance of landing a job.

1) A resume carbon that guarantees interviews.
2) Presentation admonishment application a video profile.
3) Interview coaching.
4) Career absorption testing.
5) Career appraisal & self-development.

There's advice for an earlier job appellant who doesn't apperceive what affectionate of a job to pursue, your best qualities, how to address a resume, how to account or how to accomplish a abundant impression.

Check them out to angle out. http://www.seniors4hire.org/about/resources.asp

It's about your adeptness not seniority.

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